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Fer' natur', animals
domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They are not whilst living the subjects of absolute property, so that they cannot be the subject of larceny, nor are they liable to distress for rent. … in the young until they can fly or run away. (3) Propter privilegium, when a man has a privilege of hunting, taking, and killing certain wild animals, usually called game, in exclusion of other persons. He has
Alien
Superintendent, (1915) 3 KB 716. By s. 2 the Secretary of State may, on application and in his absolute discretion, grant a certificate of naturalization to an alien who satisfies the Secretary-- (a) That he has either … the applicant has taken the oath of allegiance. The certificate gives the grantee all the rights, powers, and privileges and subjects him to all obligations, duties and liabilities of a natural-born British subject, and gives him the
Entry
conveyed at law are rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute or annexed for any purpose to a rent charge [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1(2)(e)]. Before 1925 a … SC 2371 (2376): (1998) 6 SCC 443. [Customs Act, (52 of 1962), s. 111(m)] The act, right, or privilege of entering real property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 554.
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Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Pl.), and there is no period of limitation for proceedings to claim a peerage before the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords. Treason (see that title) must be prosecuted within three years. As to the
Tenure
socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium … (now abolished, see infra). The other great class of tenements was villenage, which was subdivided into pure and privileged villenage. Pure villenage was the origin of the present copyhold tenures, or tenure by copy of Court roll,
Copyhold
a manor, seeing that a copyhold is part of the demesnes of a manor, but it is not absolutely necessary that the lands should continue parcel of the manor. And because this tenure derives its whole force … (if any) to mines, minerals, limestone, clay, stone and gravel pits or quarries; also rights, franchises, royalties, or privileges of the lord in respect of fairs, markets, chase, warren, fishery or other rights of shooting, fishing, hunting
right
of securities generally below market price right·ful [-fəl] adj right·ful·ly [-fə-lē] adv of right 1 : as an absolute right 2 : demandable or enforceable under the law [appeal of right to the circuit courts of appeal … distinguish from wrong] 2 : something to which one has a just claim: as a : a power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment or possession [the of liberty]
Lien
valid lien it is essential that the person through whom it is acquired should himself either have the absolute ownership of the property, or at least a right to vest it; for nemo plus juris ad alium … lien for freight. The Civil Law derived its own lines, whether they were pledges or hypothecations, or simple privileges, from similar sources. The following is an analysis of the mode in which the law on this subject
Customary freeholds
nature that, when they are compared with mere copyholds, they may be called freeholds, and when compared with absolute freeholds, they maybe denominated copyholds. While the freehold interest or estate rests with the tenant, the freehold tenure … intrest the following note has been preserved unaltered from the previous edition of the Lexicon. ' Also denominated, privileged copyholds of frank tenure; they were known inancient times as estates inprivileged villenage or villein socage, and are
Way
within the time of legal memory; and where the right shall have existed forty years, it shall be absolute and indefeasible, unless it appears to have been enjoyed by express agreement made for that purpose by deed … are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a
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